He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

Partners and Rats

Around 12 the next day, I went down to the science lab to meet up with Marc. When I arrived, I saw Marc sitting on his stool writing in his notebook. I walked over and sat in the seat beside him.

"Hey," I said.

"Hi. What's up?"

"Nothing much. What about you? What'cha doing in that notebook?" From what I could tell, I could see a diagram with arrows flying all over the place.

"Oh...I'm just thinking of how to start our project."

"Let's see," I said, taking his notebook and scooting it near me.

After looking at the details and his ideas, I could tell he knew what he was doing.

"It seems like you're onto something good. I'll start doing the research and statistics and you should start getting the equipment."

"Equipment?"

"Yea."

"We don't have equipment unless you consider people are our equipment?"

I laughed. "No, no. What can we use besides people?"

"I don't know."

"Let's think."

We sat there for five minutes just thinking. Then suddenly, Marc screamed out his idea out of nowhere.

"What if we use two different rats and one gets stress and the other doesn't?! Then, the both of them do some sort of task?! At the end we see the difference between them and see how they performed?!"

I sat there thinking for a moment. I knew it wouldn't be approved. And there was no possible way I would work with rats. Once before, when I had worked with one, it fell down my shirt. It refused to come out and scurried under my shirt. After the incident, I have become so scared of them that I could pee in my pants. But just the sight of him spazzing out in happiness made me happy.

"Let's do it then."

We walked over to the teacher and asked her. For a minute or so, she thought about it. Then she spoke.

"That's a nice idea. We can make it even better by using more rats. But if you really want to work with them, you will have to keep them in a safe place. I'm pretty sure Principal Button won't like little Mickey and Minnie mouse running around the school."

"You got it," Marc said.

"Wait are you sure, Mrs. Pasalski? Like are you completely, 100% sure you approve us working on this?" I ask.

"Yeah it is Nina. I find it rather interesting. The judges at the science fair would also find it very new and unique."

I walked away in shock. To impress this guy, I will now have to face an army of rats.

"I'm so excited," I heard Marc say.

At least, he was excited. I, on the other hand, was anything but that.

We both headed off back to our seats and started to work again.

"We will take pictures with the rats first and then we will start seperating them. Wait, WHAT IF WE GIVE THEM NICKNAMES FIRST?! That would be awesome!"

I was nauseous as he explained to me what the plan was for the project.

As he kept talking about what he would do with the rats, I got sick to the stomach and felt myself about to throw up. I couldn't have even taken a chance to touch a rat again after the first accident.

As he kept talking, I dozed off. I couldn't hear him anymore. Instead, I felt my muscles lose energy and I felt the world spinning.

Then, out of nowhere, I fell to the cold, hard floor. From the slight vision I had, I could see Marc holding his hand to the mouth, in shock. He bent down towards me and started saying something.

Before, I could hear anything, my eyes closed.

And then all I could see was black.

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